On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 11:15:14PM -0700, John Walsh wrote: > Wil Macaulay writes: > > > >>--- Due to popular demand, +...+ is now the preferred > >>syntax for notating decorations; !...! has been > >>deprecated, although it is still allowed. > >> > > > >I thought *....* was proposed? although deprecated, +....+ is still > around > >as an alternate to [...] for chords.
They were both proposed. > In addition, +..+ looks ugly, to me, at least. Looked ugly for > chords, still looks ugly for decorations. Oh well. But this raises > another question: shouldn't the standard mention obsolete notation to > alert future developers to stuff which might be expected to show up in old > abc files? (It's not a very long list: +..+ for chords, s..s for slurs, > and [1, [2 for repeats come to mind. **, *, + and/or !---depending on what > is finally decided---are other cases in point. There are probably a > couple more, but not many.) Abc2mtex has some flags: oldchords, oldslurs, > which allow it to process these; I don't know if other programs handle > them at all. Should they? AT least to list them, would be a good idea, so that if someone meets them in a tune and their program doesn't handle them, they'll know what they mean and be able to do the appropriate translation by hand. WRT [ repeats - this document gives the impression they are the preferred form, all the examples given use it. I notice that the way it notes that "When adjacent to bar lines, these can be shortened to |1 and :|2" give the implication that "[" repeat constructions can be used in mid bar. I've just checked, and see that the abc2pses will do this - is it generally acepted ? If so, there is reason to not regard these as obsolete, since this is something that can't be done with the "|1" form (following on from which, I also notice none of them accept that "A dotted bar line can be notated by preceding it with a dot, e.g. `.|'") -- Richard Robinson "The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
